February 14th 2018

POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e have released their third single off their upcoming full-length album. The song is called "Speaking Of Ghost" and has been premiered by Fader. Go here to listen!

“‘Speaking of Ghost’ included a sample of mine and Ryan’s 10 month old son at the time playing drums. He was on the road with us for the first performance of the song in Berlin. It's a note of memories from the first year of his life and it ends with a message to him for his future when I'm gone. He was my constant companion while writing this record: I'd write the lyrics by trying out different melodies and stories on him while I sang him to sleep: he was my silent audience...felt like singing for a ghost.” - Channy Leaneagh of POLIÇA

POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e will take their collaboration on the road starting tomorrow for a limited run of dates that includes stops in New York, POLIÇA’s hometown Minneapolis, and Chicago. Full dates listed below--get your tickets HERE.

Introduced via the Liquid Music project run by the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in Minnesota, with the hope of a cross-genre collaboration, POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e first met in Berlin in 2016 in s t a r g a z e conductor André de Ridder's living room. While the collaboration started in the same room, the process continued as an 18-month long "ping pong" match as the bands exchanged ideas and music over email, mp3 files, video conferencing, and the occasional meet-up in Berlin, Minneapolis, and Eau Claire. Both bands were adamant that whatever they created "not just be POLIÇA songs with s t a r g a z e pasted on top," as POLIÇAvocalist Channy Leaneagh puts it, and the end result is the most adventurous and forward-thinking music either group has made to date.

Lyrically, this is in many ways an album of tensions — of sorrow and intense joy, of beauty and confusion. "It's about those contradictions in life," Leaneagh says. "How you can be going through tragedy, never-ending wars, but you still also are dealing with human relationships and love and romantic troubles." It is a reflection of the strange and sudden darkening of our times. "Everybody in s t a r g a z e and POLIÇA is a little older. I grew up in a time in America that was before the internet, in a time when the schools in America were the least segregated that they'd ever been. In a time when we had turned towards progress after the era of Jim Crow, and lynching, and the Ku Klux Klan. And we're back in that right now in America. And in a lot of places in Europe too. We had our hands on progress and then it flipped. So the songs deal with that, lyrically, and musically they do too — with the idea that we're still human beings and we’re trying to find happiness and the love of our lives, or a career to be happy about, but then we're also trying to find world peace and end racism."

For both bands, this record is "an example of the truly healing effects of making music with your friends," says Leaneagh. “And while it doesn’t necessarily make things better, it builds community.” Music For The Long Emergency will be released on February 16th via Totally Gross National Product/Transgressive. Pre-order the album HERE.

February 9th 2018

The second single from Minneapolis-based beat collective ULTRA SUEDE is here, and it features the mighty Sims (of Doomtree)!

Ultra Suede is a collective of sorts, music and art at its roots, production team as branches, but also a commune of ideas under the umbrella of its symbol, protection. The point is to create an atmosphere of creativity and build a community. Its purpose is to create and cultivate an environment of culture. It is a protected place for artists and thinkers to collaborate and grow. Protection X Connection. Anyone that collaborates, listens, throws up the symbol…is Ultra Suede. It is a constant growing family.

February 9th 2018

Minneapolis-based electronic quintet POLIÇA and European orchestral collective s t a r g a z e will release their debut collaborative album Music For The Long Emergency on February 16th. Today they share the stunning visuals for the second single from the record, “Agree,” which depict the journey of two outlaws and culminate in an event that cements their fates into an eternal love. “[‘Agree’] felt like a song for a lover,” says director and editor Maria Juranic, “there seemed to be a push and pull in the lyrics, which inspired the idea of a dangerous relationship like the one of the outlaws.

POLIÇA and s t a r g a z e will take their collaboration on the road starting next week for a limited run of dates that includes stops in New York, POLIÇA’s hometown Minneapolis, and Chicago. Full dates listed below--get your tickets HERE.

Music For The Long Emergency will be released on February 16th via Totally Gross National Product/Transgressive. Pre-order the album HERE.

January 5th 2018

Ultra Suede is a collective of sorts, music and art at its roots, production team as branches, but also a commune of ideas under the umbrella of its symbol, protection. The point is to create an atmosphere of creativityand build a community. Its purpose is to create and cultivate an environment of culture. It is a protected place for artists and thinkers to collaborate and grow. Protection X Connection.